《罗生门》 《罗生门》以风雨不透的布局将人推向生死抉择的极限,从而展示了“恶”的无可回避,传递出作者对人的理解,对人的无奈与绝望。
《德伯家的苔丝:一个纯洁的女人》是托马斯·哈代的长篇小说。小说主人公苔丝这一形象是哈代对人类世界的伟大贡献,她已成为世界文学长廊中很优美迷人的女性形象之一。生活贫困的苔丝因貌美而被地主少爷亚利克玷污了贞节。因此,苔丝曾一度精神不振。后来,经过时间的洗涤,苔丝重振精神开始新的人生。她遇上了年轻、英俊的克莱尔,两人情投意合。然而,就在结婚的当天,克莱尔知道了苔丝的过去……
唐代传奇即唐代的短篇小说,内容主要表现唐代的生活,以所写故事及人物命运来表达作者的思想。由于作品大多描写人世真情,因此引起广大民众的共鸣和欣赏,受到社会的广泛喜爱。其中还有如《任氏传》《柳毅传》《霍小玉传》等名篇,不断被后世的戏曲和白话小说所改编流传,并由此走进民间大众,成为中国脍炙人口的故事。 为了继承中国的优秀文化遗产,使文明古国的传统文化得以发扬光大,我们精选了中国唐代传奇名著10篇,以古籍原著加今、英译的形式出版。译文力求准确、流畅,使读者能够直面中国古代文化之精华,并在阅读中受益。 唐代传奇曾被译成英、日等外文出版流传。本书所选作品,由已故的张友鹤先生等校订,王中立先生作了今译,杨宪益、戴乃迭夫妇完成英译。
《萌芽》是世界文学目前第一部正面描写产业工人罢工的小说,完整地再现了矿工们罢工的过程,揭露了劳资双方深刻的矛盾,提出了振聋发聩的社会问题。小说共分七部分,前四部分是引子、开场、发展、深入,反复交代了矿工们的工作和生活状况之凄惨,一步步描写矿工们的反抗情绪的产生、扩大和高涨。第五部分是全书的高潮,矿工们世代累积的愤恨终于无法抑制,罢工酝酿成熟,自然爆发。六七部分描写罢工的失败经过和尾声,全书形成一个整体。
《月亮和六便士》是毛姆代表性长篇力作之一,故事部分取材于法国后印象派画家保罗·高更的生平。 证券交易所经纪人斯特里克兰的内心燃烧着对艺术无法停息的渴望,遂抛弃稳定的家庭生活,舍弃富裕的经济环境,独自一人离开伦敦,去往巴黎与塔希提追求自己的绘画理想。在经历一系列不可思议的波折之后,他终于寻得艺术的圆满,完成生命的升华。生存与理想的博弈,创造与毁灭的共存,通过一位艺术天才的传奇经历,得到淋漓尽致的展现。
《彭斯诗选》属于“外国文学名著丛书”第三辑,收入苏格兰文学目前伟大的诗人罗伯特·彭斯的六十首诗歌。其中《爱情与自由》是一篇出色的长诗,既逼真、生动地呈现了下层社会,挑战了统治阶级的虚伪道德。其中的独唱个性鲜明,豪放的大合唱传达了聚集在小酒店里的流浪者的情绪。彭斯的诗风朴素、新鲜、生动,音乐性强,首首可唱。
《德国诗选(精)/外国文学名著丛书》收入德国中世纪至二十世纪上半页的诗歌经典,包括瓦尔特、萨克斯、金特、歌德、席勒等的作品。
儒勒·凡尔纳著的《海底两万里》这部小说,描写的是法国博物学家阿罗纳克斯教授和尼摩艇长在海底深处旅行的故事。他们游历了世界许多海洋,饱览了海底变幻无穷的奇异景观和形形色色的生物,经历了种种危险。小说悬念迭出,高潮频起,趣味盎然,在引人入胜的故事中蕴含着鲜明的爱憎和广博的地理知识,使读者获得精神享受的同时,感受到自然的神奇和科学的力量。
China’S 1ast eunuch Sun Yaoting died in December 1996 at age 94.He took with him intimate stories of the last vestiges of Imperial China and was himself the 1ast in the line of eunuchs who had served the royal family for more than 2,000 years.His personal iourney from poor farmboy to revered servant to PU Yi and Wanrong.China’S last emperor and empress,iS an amazing iourney which also chronicles nearly one century of turbulence and upheavalin Chinese history and culture. This engrossing biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua fcatures first.hand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden City.his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese—held Manchukuo in the 1 930s.his return to“normal”1ifc as a munity organizer in the Buddhist temple where he 1ivcd out the rest of his lifc. Beginning in the early 1 900s.Sun’S story follows events in China such as Pu Yi’S abdication of lmperial rule.the Japanese occupation 0f China which ended with the conclusion of
法国作家居斯塔夫·福楼拜的代表作《包法利夫人》被认为是“新艺术的法典”,是一部“最完美的小说”。作品以极其简洁而细腻的文笔,描写了富裕农民的独生女,美丽的主人公艾玛,因不甘与忠厚老实的丈夫过平庸的生活,两次发生婚外情,后均遭情人抛弃;又因过度消费,债台高筑,终于被迫自杀的故事。福楼拜通过这个富有激情幻想的妇女爱玛的经历,再现了十九世纪中期法国的现实生活,深刻揭示了浪漫主义的追求与庸俗鄙琐的现实生活的尖锐矛盾。
《人生的枷锁》主人公菲利普凯里自幼父母双亡,不幸又先天残疾,在冷漠而陌生的环境中度过了童年,性格因此孤僻而敏感。在寄宿学校度过的岁月让他饱受了不合理的学校制度的摧残,而当他走人社会后,又在爱情上经历了伤痛。在坎坷的人生道路上,他每跨一步,都要付出艰辛的挣扎,但思想和个性都独立不羁的凯里,一直努力挣脱宗教和小市民意识这两条禁锢自己精神的桎梏,力图在混沌纷扰的生活漩流中,寻求人生的真谛。
The title might have been written by Mao himself. Instead, it was dictated by the revealing, intimate, neverbeforepublished recollections of Li Yinqiao, Mao'odyguard, and brought to light by the author Quan Yanchi. After fifteen years of devoted service, Li received thisrequest from Mao: "If what happens in my family is a secretto others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about mewhile I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully whenyou do." For the first time, the personal, inside story ofChina's dynamic leader and world statesman is told rathelife and thought of Mao, the husband, father, radeinarms, the peasant's son. The recollections, only now madepublic in English, provide the reader with a refreshinglydifferent perspective from any of the many other worksabout Mao, Highlighting the book are photographs, published here for the first time.
《钢铁是怎样炼成的》(1933)是作者根据自己亲身经历写成的一部优秀小说。主人公保尔·柯察金所走过的道路,反映了苏联第一代革命青年不怕困难、艰苦奋斗、勇于胜利的大无畏精神,鼓舞了一代又一代有志青年去实现自己的理想。此次收入“丛书”,特为中小学生课外阅读制作,书前配有“导读”,书后有“知识链接”,以给青少年朋友以必要阅读指引和知识积累。
The title might have been written by Mao himself. Instead, it was dictated by the revealing, intimate, neverbeforepublished recollections of Li Yinqiao, Mao'odyguard, and brought to light by the author Quan Yanchi. After fifteen years of devoted service, Li received thisrequest from Mao: "If what happens in my family is a secretto others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about mewhile I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully whenyou do." For the first time, the personal, inside story ofChina's dynamic leader and world statesman is told rathelife and thought of Mao, the husband, father, radeinarms, the peasant's son. The recollections, only now madepublic in English, provide the reader with a refreshinglydifferent perspective from any of the many other worksabout Mao, Highlighting the book are photographs, published here for the first time.